Building Resilience Welcome from the Building Resilience Hub

Building Resilience Welcome from the Building Resilience Hub Our aim is to promote positive links with our families and help families have a better understanding of what we are doing in our school.

Building Resilience This coffee morning is to provide extra information about the programme. The children in the Hub helped to organise today.

Building Resilience

Building Resilience The Background It began with… • ‘Confident Staff, Confident Children Research. • Pilot at South Morningside Primary • Education Scotland Funding • Good results and was rolled out across Edinburgh Schools. • Schools in other authorities are now introducing it.

Building Resilience Introducing our character, Skipper

Building Resilience Skipper’s journey on the river of life

Building Resilience Skipper’s toolkit - based on the ‘ 10 things’ that help us to navigate the river of life

Building Resilience Overview of Building Resilience • Aims to help children to function well, both at school and in their life • Provides strategies and tools to help children cope with the ups and downs of life • It fits into the Health and Well Being curriculum and in the general life of the school • Promotes partnerships with families and the wider school community • Provides skills for life

Building Resilience A 3 year rolling programme

Building Resilience 1. Launch Assembly

Building Resilience 2. Reflection Assembly 3. Sharing Assembly

Building Resilience 4. Parent & Carer Leaflet

Building Resilience 5. Staff information es nc e r e f e R Staff Sound Bytes Role Model It

Building Resilience 6. Classroom Activities • Activities are based on the three key learning points for each unit • Links to Rights Respecting School and the Rights of the Child

Building Resilience Intro: Be Resilient In this unit we will cover: • Everyone goes through ups and downs in their life • We can learn to be more resilient • Resilient people cope better with difficulties

Building Resilience y g o l a n a ife River of l Resiliency skills can be learned Resilient Role Models

Building Resilience The story of Yusra Mardini is a swimmer. In 2016, she competed at the Olympics in Rio. At age 17, she had to leave her country because of war. She left everything behind and had to start again in a new country. This is her story…

Building Resilience Role Models Ask yourself… Who do you know who has faced a challenge or set back? What were things that helped Yusra?

Building Resilience 1: Keep Connected • Relationships are important for our health and wellbeing • Belonging to a group can be a good way to build friendships • Good relationships are a two way thing

Building Resilience e l p o e pportiv Su Group involvement d a b d n a Good s p i h s n o i relat UNCRC Articles 5 & 15

Building Resilience 2: Respect Yourself In this unit we will cover: • There is no one quite like me • Everyone has different strengths • I treat myself with respect

Building Resilience Self care I am…I have…I can UNCRC Articles 8 & 12 Story of Invisible Sam

Building Resilience 3: Challenge Your Mindset In this unit we will cover: • Who we are and what we are good at is not fixed • The way we think, feel or learn shapes our brain • I can change through the choices I make